NEOShield now has a website!Welcome to www.NEOShield.net, the new home of the NEOShield project in the World Wide Web.

On this site you can find out about the NEOShield project itself, including about the project itself, as well as who’s in the team. Results and outputs of the project will also be here as they become available.

A very large asteroid, 308242 (2005 GO21), is making its closest approach to the Earth today.

The approach distance is not as close as other NEO close approaches, at 0.0440AU, which is 17.1 times the distance between the Earth and Moon. However, the asteroid is very large, somewhere between 1.4km and 3.1km in diameter, which is of a size that would cause global damage